Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

In business conversations, the term supply chain excellence rolls off the tongue frequently in meetings, but what does it mean? Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say. We designed the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology to help companies define supply chain excellence.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 11, 2024

The world has changed so dramatically that EY analysts Matthew Burton and Joost Vreeswijk assert global supply chains need to undergo a great reset.[1] 1] According to Burton and Vreeswijk, there are five elements that must be considered during this great supply chain reset. They write, “Think in expected values.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In my opinion, these are factors that led to the pollsters being so far off on the 2016 US election, and how supply chain practitioners can help these pollsters to improve. Balance is also critical for supply chains. We must have an ability to monitor the supply chain, and detect when it goes out of balance.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 22, 2016

On May 7, 2016 we announced a partnership with CorpU for next-generation supply chain learning. Today our first course, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter, is ready for sale. The full course catalog will be complete by the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. Building the Customer-Centric Supply Chain.

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E2open

MARCH 13, 2018

The 6 W’s of Supply Chain Planning Systems of Record. If you’re unfamiliar with the term “supply chain planning system of record,” it is essentially the one place where an organization can bring together all supply chain data and plan its enterprise operations. Tuesday 13 March 2018.

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Supply Chain Network

JANUARY 26, 2012

In the tradition of David Letterman, (in no particular order) let’s hit the Top 10 Supply Chain Predictions for 2012. Supply chain risk will not go away. At the start of 2011, I wrote a blog (Supply Chain Risk and Charles Darwin) that highlighted 2010 as the worst on record for supply chain disruptions.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 23, 2017

Is it time to start to plan the new year? At this time of year, we find many companies planning workshops to stimulate thinking on building a digital supply chain and igniting next-generation supply chain thinking. We are offering three types of benchmarking: planning, financial and organizational.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The beauty of the supply chain is all around us. I guess I’m a supply chain junkie…can’t get enough of it. So rather than write another one, I thought it would be interesting to look at this omni-channel world in a daily life setting, but viewed from a supply chain junkie’s perspective.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 19, 2018

Perhaps the most overworked word in the supply chain management lexicon is “visibility.” Yet it’s difficult to overstate the importance of a view into what’s going on in the supply chain. After all, you can’t source, make, move, store, deliver, measure or improve what you can’t see.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 5, 2024

Now, imagine if Sara’s applied the same supply chain strategy to both of these types of customers and channels. As you might expect, it would lead to numerous inefficiencies, jeopardize profits, and in a worst-case scenario, could even result in the business shutting down due to a completely collapsed supply chain.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 20, 2013

In anticipation of his presentation at JDA’s Innovation Forum in Chicago on September 10, Supply Chain Nation sat down with Rick Blasgen, president and CEO of CSCMP, as part of our Expert Insight series to get a preview of his presentation on the State of Supply Chain Management. and other parts of the world?

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BlueYonder

MARCH 24, 2015

The last 15 years have been a rollercoaster for supply chain professionals as companies embraced supply chain innovation, moving up the five steps of the supply chain maturity curve, supported by new technologies. Figure 1: A fresh look at the Five Tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 16, 2015

Building a High-Performing and Profitable Supply Chain. In Part I of my Supply Chain Strategy series, I explained why the five tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains remain a great starting point to build your supply chain strategy. Figure 4 – Maturity Model for Customer-Centric Supply Chains.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2015

In Part I of my Supply Chain Strategy series, I explained why the five tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains remain a great starting point to build your supply chain strategy. This post will explore the three capabilities essential to supply chain redesign. Frequent product portfolio changes.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 30, 2015

My hand was enjoying the warmth from the porcelain coffee cup and I was loving the solitude when a supply chain leader approached me with a cup of tea in his hand. After you implement, demand planning well, there is little that you can do to improve the bias and the accuracy of the forecasting process. It is what it is.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

MAY 14, 2014

Discussion Questions: Carefully explain the difference between a “resilient” and an “efficient” supply chain. What strategies do the authors suggest for making a supply chain both “resilient” and “efficient” at the same time? Supply Chains Can Be Both Resilient and Cost Efficient.

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ThroughPut

MAY 24, 2024

Managing inventory in a supply chain is complex due to issues like downtime, delays, and demand fluctuations. Multi-echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) is an advanced inventory management strategy that optimizes inventory levels across multiple stages or echelons in a supply chain.

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HICX Solutions

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As an increasing number of organizations engage with vendors on a global level to fulfill their supply chains, the need for supply chain robustness has never been so critical. The Global Supply Chain Landscape: What is the current situation?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting, Ferrari Consulting and Research Group Managing Director Bob Ferrari pens highlights of Schneider Electric’s Innovation Summit conference and highlights of a conversation with the company’s Chief Supply Chain Officer. . The company thus remains in an enviable position.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions.

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